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Human Development is widely recognised as the overriding goal of development, yet its realization is challenged by growing inequality, macro-economic fluctuations, and recurrent financial crises. This edited collection reflects on the work of Richard Jolly and includes contributions from leading scholars of development, all of whom have worked with Richard Jolly at varying points in his distinguished career. The volume advances thinking in the area of Human Development by discussing the evolution of its conceptualization and the policy implications, and the achievements in related key areas such as education, social protection, and employment. It juxtaposes these theoretical and (at times) real life improvements with disturbing developments in terms of growing inequality and macro-economic instability. It documents the growing income inequality which has characterized both developing and developed countries. It shows that there has been a decline in some countries and identifies the policies adopted in these exceptional cases. It also shows also where and how public expenditure on Human Development in developing countries has been affected by the 2008 financial crisis and presents a new framework for a pro-growth pro-Human Development macro-economics, including suggestions for the countercyclical regulation of financial flows. The book also argues that a series of disruptive factors are nudging the innovation trajectory in new potentially pro-poor and pro-Human Development directions, especially if policies speed-up the diffusion of new efficient appropriate technologies in low and middle income economies

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Macroeconomics

• Full title: Towards Human Development
• Subtitle: New Approaches to Macroeconomics and Inequality
• Author: Giovanni Andrea Cornia
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780198706083
• ISBN: 0198706081
• ID: 04528193
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 652 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 165 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. April 2014

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